What is distillation? In dumby Terms? how do we seperate iron, sand, salt and limestone using scientific proce

Question

eg. distillation or filtration etc...

Ohh.. does limestone dissolve in water?????

or is it acidic?

Answer 1

Distillation is the separation (or concentration) of liquids of different weights (which affects boiling points). In the case of distilled spirits, turning wine into cognac,say, the alcohol in the wine, which is at about 10% (by volume) evaporates at a lower temperature than the water component. This enables you to get concentrated alcohol when you pass the vapor of near-boiling wine over a cool, condenser coil (a.k.a. worm).

To separate a mixture of iron, sand, salt and limestone, first you can dissolve the salt away with water. When you distill the water, or just let a puddle dry up, you will have salt crystals. Next, you can use a magnet to screen out the iron. (These processes can be done in either order.) To separate the limestone from the sand, use an acid. Acid will dissolve limestone. When you neutralize the acid, the limestone will precipitate. What's left is sand.
(Limestone is a sedimentary rock that is composed mainly of calcium oxide CaO, which is known as lime. It is alkaline, or basic.)

Answer 2

relies upon how direction your salt and sand is, yet i'm assuming salt is "table salt" consistency, and sand has standard particle length of a pair of million mm or so. if so, use a sieve which has openings of a million -2 mm (possibly 8 - sixteen mesh?) and sieve each little thing by it. The sesame seeds ought to stay interior the sieve, on a similar time as the iron filings, sand and salt blend passes by. Then use a magnet to do away with iron filings. ultimately, dissolve the salt/sand blend up in water, and clear out off the sand.